The artist has been an adviser for Adobe along with other select digital artists, test-driving the unreleased Adobe Photoshop versions.
Stahl has designed postage stamps for the United States Postal Service and in addition to her stamp illustrations, the artist has been featured by print publications such as Time Magazine, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal and many others.
Digital image manipulation was in its infancy at the time and the artist has recalled that "you'd go back to this hazmat type of room-you know, those computer rooms where the guys would wear white and it was freezing cold-one huge room, full of tapes, and you'd load your tape".
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In the late 1980s, Stahl was invited by Charlex (also known as CHRLX since 1998) to come in after hours to learn how to create digital art on their mainframe computers. Early work Īlthough the artist would be recognized as a pioneer of digital illustration, Stahl began her illustration career in 1971 working in gouache, and developing a bold "poster style" which the artist credits as being influenced by Ludwig Hohlwein, and more generally by the English railway and underground posters of Edward McKnight Kauffer The artist attended the University of Arizona and the Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles.